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End of an era? 5 Hong Kong food and beverage icons that have bowed out, and how their legacy lives on
From Happy Cake Shop to Jumbo Floating Restaurant, a number of classic food outlets have buckled under pressure amid the pandemic. Read the original article at South China Morning Post
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Hong Kong’s homeless numbers surge to 10-year high as pandemic travel restrictions, job losses take their toll
Official count shows 1,581 sleeping rough, with a big jump in the number of homeless women. Read the original article at South China Morning Post
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From viral art to tennis balls of protest: New Zealand museum collects Covid’s living history
Even as the pandemic rolls on, Te Papa Tongarewa is assembling objects that will chart Aotearoa’s coronavirus journey On a table in a back room of New Zealand’s national museum,…
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UK Covid wave falling away as infections drop by half a million
ONS estimates suggest 2,585,400 people in the UK were infected in the week to 26 July The UK’s latest wave of Covid continued to subside at the end of last…
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Coronavirus: half-day lessons to be maintained at Hong Kong primary schools, kindergartens as Covid cases rebound
Secondary schools in Hong Kong will still be able to run full-day classes if 90 per cent of students have received two vaccine doses of a vaccine and all staff…
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UK house prices fall for first time since June 2021, says Halifax
Market cools in July as lender warns of impact of higher interest rates and cost of living crisis UK house prices fell in July for the first time in more…
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Police racial bias played role in UK Covid fines regime, says report
Researchers say institutional racism probably contributed to ‘differential approach’ to enforcement of powers Bias in policing at least partly explains why minority ethnic people were more likely to receive fines…
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Covid loans make UK taxpayers shareholders in cannabis oil firm
Future Fund scheme granted loans to eclectic range of companies, list from British Business Bank shows British taxpayers are now shareholders in a further 65 companies because of a government…
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The deadly consequences of Britain’s lockdown drinking – podcast
What will the cost be of our lockdown drinking habits? A University of Sheffield study has estimated England could have up to 25,000 excess deaths over the next 20 years…
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Economically inactive Britons with long Covid have ‘doubled’ in a year
One in 20 people unemployed and not seeking work have symptoms, says ONS One in 20 people in the UK who are neither employed nor seeking paid work are suffering…